🚂 A Little Look Around Sir Nigel Gresley’s Cab 🚂 Here’s a quick look inside the cab of the legendary Sir Nigel Gresley – with me wittering away in the background, as usual! Hard not to, really. When you’re stood in the same spot where countless crews have worked this record-breaking loco, your inner train nerd just takes over. A piece of living history, steaming on into the modern day – and I’m here talking absolute nonsense as if I know what I’m doing! 🎥 Just a bit of fun, but what a machine

'Black Beauty' On a cold December day the cameras headed out to Crofton, to capture Ex-LNER A4 No.4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' roaring through on the final few miles of Savernake bank. Seen at two locations alongside the Kennet & Avon canal, with its historic steam pumping engines at Crofton, the A4 took the climb in its stride with no assistance from history tail gunner, class 47 No.D1935 'Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013'. This was to be the last railtour with the locomotive carrying Wartime black, as n

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